History of the Cathedral Church of Wells: As Illustrating the History of the Cathedral Churches of the Old FoundationMacmillan, 1870 - 200 pages |
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... monks of Glastonbury would be then , as they were long after , altogether set against having the Bishop for their chief instead of an Abbot of their own . I conceive that Wells was chosen , because at Wells there was already a body of ...
... monks of Glastonbury would be then , as they were long after , altogether set against having the Bishop for their chief instead of an Abbot of their own . I conceive that Wells was chosen , because at Wells there was already a body of ...
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... monks of Glastonbury could not so well do . If this be so , then the Chapter of Wells is really an older institu- tion than the Bishoprick . The present form of the Chapter is , as I shall presently show , comparatively modern ; but if ...
... monks of Glastonbury could not so well do . If this be so , then the Chapter of Wells is really an older institu- tion than the Bishoprick . The present form of the Chapter is , as I shall presently show , comparatively modern ; but if ...
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... monks and pilgrims still worshipped in that primæval church of wood and wicker which time and conquest had as yet agreed to spare . ( 12 ) To the north of the old British monastery , not alone on an island , but nestling under the ...
... monks and pilgrims still worshipped in that primæval church of wood and wicker which time and conquest had as yet agreed to spare . ( 12 ) To the north of the old British monastery , not alone on an island , but nestling under the ...
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... monks . have heard people talk of monks even in our church of Wells , where there never was a monk . Indeed they sometimes seem to fancy that not only all the clergy but all mankind were monks ; at least one hardly ever sees an old ...
... monks . have heard people talk of monks even in our church of Wells , where there never was a monk . Indeed they sometimes seem to fancy that not only all the clergy but all mankind were monks ; at least one hardly ever sees an old ...
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... monks and clergy were appointed to serve them , but a special body of monks or clergy always remained at the cathedral church , to be the Bishop's special com- panions , and to keep up the cathedral church as the model and example for ...
... monks and clergy were appointed to serve them , but a special body of monks or clergy always remained at the cathedral church , to be the Bishop's special com- panions , and to keep up the cathedral church as the model and example for ...
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